A Selection of Collectable Natural History Books - December 2016

Offered here is a selection of rare, antiquarian and modern natural history books.

Highlights include:

Louisa Anne Meredith’s sumptuously illustrated 'Bush Friends in Tasmania' - signed and inscribed limited edition | A copy of the first English edition of Jan Swammerdam's pioneering work in the field of microscopy and insect anatomy, 'The Book of Nature; or, the History of Insects...' | ‘Histoire Naturelle des Crustaces’ by Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, a French naturalist who lived in the United States of America during the 1790s, following the French Revolution. This copy is a rare survivor from the Napoleonic era retaining its original publisher’s boards | A superb copy of Blackwall’s ‘A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland’, a timeless classic in the field of Arachnology | Written by two Victorian sisters, Mary Ward (microscopist and science writer) and Jane Mahon, ‘Entomology in Sport, and Entomology in Earnest’ is a rare whimsical book accompanied by charming and playful hand-coloured vignettes | Three works from the New Naturalists series, among them ‘Freshwater Fishes of the British Isle’ (New Naturalist 75) in pristine dust-wrapper, of which there are ‘no more than a handful of extant unfaded copies'. Many other volumes from the New Naturalist series in stock.

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Rare. Charming whimsical book, 'intended, not so much for the scientific, as for the young or the comparatively uninstructed reader. The authors have therefore aimed at making them entertaining,...(more)

Scarce early printing with highly finished plates with backgrounds also finely coloured. This copy is without the two-page index and four-page 'The Best Methods of Preserving Butterflies and Moths',...(more)

A complete, original, descriptive account of the life-history of every species occurring in the British Islands, together with the habits, times of appearance, and localities. A classic work based on...(more)

Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. The 91 plates in this facsimile edition have been reproduced by digital photography from the original album in the British Museum, London. Three additional...(more)

2nd edition (first published anonymously in 1762), with the author's name given on title-page, and the words 'que se trouvent aux environs de Paris' ommitted from the title, otherwise identical with...(more)

German edition. Fine chromolithographic plates. (Plates numbered: 1-54, 55A-C, 56A-C, 57-100). Title page to text volume is dated 1933 and to plate volume 1934. However the work was originally issued...(more)

'To which is also appended a list of alpines, ferns, marsh, and aquatic plants, etc.' Original issue, undated, but published 1845. The book was also reissued around 1860. This original issue has...(more)

Native Flowers, Fruits and Insects, drawn from Nature, with Prose Descriptions and Illustrations in Verse - Last Series. Limited edition of 700 signed and numbered copies. Beautiful chromolitographed...(more)

Including The Generation of the Frog, the History of the Ephemerus, the Changes of Flies, Butterflies, and Beetles….With the life of the author, by Herman Boerhaave... Translated from the Dutch and...(more)

Bilingual in English and French. This book makes available high-resolution reproductions of all the 258 paintings of gourds of the genus Cucurbita, figuring about a hundred cultivars, kept at the...(more)

This 3-volume illustrated work is devoted to the collection of botanical drawings made by Indian artists, Rungiah and Govindoo, for Scottish surgeon-botanist, Robert Wight (1796-1872). Book 1: The...(more)

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